The facts around an IRS proposal some claim would allow 'spying' on Americans' bank accounts
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Recently, the Internal Revenue Service has gotten a lot of attention on social media -- specifically, an obscure proposal by the Biden administration to widen the authority to root out tax evasion by allowing the IRS to get annual, aggregated reports of flows from bank accounts with a minimum of $600.
But it's not Biden officials or Democrats who are pushing the topic most aggressively on Twitter and other platforms. It's Republicans and right-wing media outlets attacking the proposal as a violation of privacy and arguing that the IRS would be improperly spying on everyday Americans' bank accounts.
Over the past several days Sen. Tom Cotton, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Rep. Jody Hice, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, former US Ambassador Nikki Haley and many top Republicans have tweeted about the proposal, framing it as a big government breach of privacy. This month Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed for the Courier-Journal warning people not to "let Joe Biden snoop on your bank account."
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